Morning journal and courier., 1887-04-12
mERIDEN's s2O,OOe BLAZE.

An Early Morning Fire That Com
 sumed Several Houses and Destroyed
 Much Property-Ten Horses Burned
 Including $l 1000 Trotter.
 MER1DEN, April 1.-The most serious fire that has occurred in Merideu in years broke out about two o'clock this morning in Me- Carthy's livery stable, in the rear of 35 State street. The fire spread rapidly to the two wooden buildings which form the front of the stable buildings and which were occupied as grocery and boarding house by Mrs. Henry Langrehr, and by James Mccarthy
 and Mrs. Anna Pinard a boarding house.
 The boarders had a narrow escape.
 All the buildings were entirely destroyed with ten horses owned by Mccarthy, among them being the fine trotter J. M. O., valued at $1 1000. McCarthy's loss on horses, car
 riages, furniture, etc, will be $3,000, cover
 ed by insurance. Mrs. Pinards loss is $1 000;
 Mrs. Langrehr's loss is $2 ,000; Charles Pip pert, candies, $500. The Langrehr building
 owned by Lyon & Billiard Co.,, is total loss
 It is valued at $3,0OO The building in
 which Mccarthy lived and the barn and
 stable are owned by Parker Bros., whose loss is $4, 900. The total losses will reach $20, 900.
 WORK FOR THE REPUBLICANS.
 John sherman Discusses on the Duties
 of the Hourt to the Young RepubI1-
 cans Ok Fn1AaOelpM1as
 PHILADELPHIA, April 1.-The following letter from Senator John Sherman was read
 at the annual banquet of the Young Repub-
 licans of Philadelphia tonight:
 WASHINGTON, April 3.
 John s. Stuart, Esq, president Young Re- publicans, Phila1elphia:
 My dear sir-While I am compelled to de- ny myself the pleasure or dining with the Young Republican club of Philadelphia on April II, I take the occasion to express my high appreciation of the value of their ser vices to the cause of good government in which we are all, or ought to be, enlisted. As one of the seniors of the Republican party may be allowed to give words of encourage ment and advice to the young men who have assumed, or will soon assume, the control of our political organization. We certainly should feel pride in the great measures that have been successfully executed by the Republican party, and although you
 may not have to conduct a the Union and will probably have no such difficult tasks as reconstruction and slavery to deal with, yet the work of the party is but fairly begun. That which is past is honor able, that which is to come will depend chiefly upon the vigor, integrity and patriot ! ism of the young Republicans who like your- selves are now organizing to continue the l work of the past. What you have to do is | to still further develop and diversity Ameri- can industry. It should be our aim to pro duce everything in this country for which l the God of nature has given the raw ma | terials or which are suited to our soil and climate. Every measure should be support ! ed that will tend to foster, defend and pro- | tect home industries. We should not be content until every channel of communication capable of improvement l and which will yield benefits equal l to their cost shall be improved. The educa l tion of the rising generation without respect | to race, color or previous condition ought to | be constant object of desire. The equal enjoyment of every civil and political right given by the constitution should be secured | by every legal and constitutional means. | The shadows and preiudices of the past should be lifted by the lights of modern | civilization. The workingman in every con- dition of life should be encouraged, protect ed and assisted by every reasonable means to l advance his condition and to open up to him | by honest labor and enterprise ali the ave nues of wealth and honor Our adversaries may brood over the dead past and mourn | the decay of confederate ideas, but Repubfi- cans hail with unbounded satisfaction every
 abroad. conscious that this is consistent with the full powers of State, l county and local governments, reaching to every family and homestead In the land. With the sincere hope that your society
 and kindred societies throughout the United States may take up the work of the Repub-
 lican party, and carry it to its logical result, am as ever, .,-- Very truly yours,
 ~ JOHN SHERMAN. The principal speech of the evening was
 delivered by the society's guest, ex-GovernoI
 John s. Wise of Virginia, who in response
 to toast expressed severe condemnation of the Democratic party. He declared that that party had broken it's pledges to repeal the l internal revenue laws, to secure the passage | of the Blair educational bill and to reduce | the surplus. It had passed an inter State \ commerce law which was 30 bad that 1t had | to be suspended in order to avert general disaster. MT. Wise thought
 that too much importance was given New
 York as pivotal State. The Republicans
 must stop stalking everything on New York
 Virginia is a Republican State, for clever
 counties with 120 900 whites and but 150, ,00(
 blacks give on an aggregate vote of 30. .0Ot
 a Republican majority of over LOGO. Witt 1 Hendricks gone and Mcdonald snubbed In diana is no longer solid for the Democracy | West Virginia is Republican. Tennessee ant f-North Carolina are ready to come.
 During the performance of the "Red Fox
 at the Bijou Theater in Boston last evenin